Section 398.2 Of Article 14. Disclosure Of Sources Of Electrical Generation From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 1. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 2.3. >> Article 14.
398.2
. The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the
construction of this article.
(a) "Retail supplier" means an entity that offers an electricity
product for sale to retail consumers in California.
(b) "System operator" means the Independent System Operator with
responsibility for the efficient use and reliable operation of the
transmission grid, as provided by Section 345, or a local publicly
owned electric utility that does not utilize the Independent System
Operator.
(c) "Specific purchases" means electricity transactions which are
traceable to specific generation sources by any auditable contract
trail or equivalent, such as a tradable commodity system, that
provides commercial verification that the electricity source claimed
has been sold once and only once to a retail consumer. Retail
suppliers may rely on annual data to meet this requirement, rather
than hour-by-hour matching of loads and resources.
(d) "Unspecified sources of power" means electricity that is not
traceable to specific generation sources by any auditable contract
trail or equivalent, including a tradable commodity system, that
provides commercial verification that the electricity source claimed
has been sold once, and only once, to a retail consumer.